(n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
(n.) An excavation in the ground, made by an animal to live in, or a natural cavity inhabited by an animal; hence, a low, narrow, or dark lodging or place; a mean habitation.
(n.) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in; as, to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars.
(n.) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball.
(v. i.) To go or get into a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(4) Macular holes, formerly believed to be rare in these injuries, were found in two of the five patients.
(5) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.
(6) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
(7) Bar manager Joe Mattheisen, 66, who has worked at the hole-in-the-wall bar since 1997, said the bar has attracted younger, straighter crowds in recent years.
(8) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(9) If the attacker's plan was to make important ideas disappear down the memory hole, it looks as if it has backfired spectacularly.
(10) In contrast, eyes with macular holes had a greater reduction in the steady-state VEP amplitude than eyes with optic neuritis.
(11) An 8-French right Judkins guiding catheter with a single side hole (USCI), a 3.0 mm balloon dilatation catheter (ACS), and a 0.018 high torque floppy guide wire (ACS) were used.
(12) Four hours p.i., a clustering of the p60 antigen and, 12 h p.i., a formation of finger-like holes, penetrating the nucleus, occurred.
(13) Campbell, Ann E. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass.
(14) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(15) The chancellor deliberately made cautious assumptions for the deficit in the budget, but the 5.6% contraction in the economy has blown an even bigger hole in the public finances than feared in April.
(16) He avoided everyone he didn't want to see when he was in Hong Kong, the first place he escaped to, and for several weeks he remained beyond the reach of the world's media, and doubtless a small army of spies, while holed up in a hotel room in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport.
(17) There were no thromboses among infants with long end-hole catheters while infants with short end-hole catheters had thrombosis in 26%, long side-hole catheters in 33% and short side-hole catheters in 64%.
(18) The animal model was induced by left frontal burr hole opening and inoculation of a small piece of G-XII glioma tissue to 6- to 8-week-old rats.
(19) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(20) Thus, VP2 and VP5 together form a continuous layer around the inner shell except for holes on the 5-fold axis.
Pitfall
Definition:
(n.) A pit deceitfully covered to entrap wild beasts or men; a trap of any kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Respiratory alteration in the intensity of heart sounds is one of the commonest auscultatory pitfalls.
(2) Pitfalls which may lead to overinterpretation are discussed.
(3) This article examines AIDS- and HIV-related concerns in women with a focus on the personal dilemmas for the practicing psychologist, problems in health behavior advocacy, and methods and pitfalls in modifying sexual behaviors.
(4) We describe an instrument designed specifically to avoid the pitfalls of intraoperative chest tube placement.
(5) Diagnostic pitfalls can generally be avoided by insisting on the opportunity for clinical-radiologic-pathologic correlation ("triangulation") before a final diagnosis is made.
(6) If the scientific community does not take steps to avoid such pitfalls in developmental screening, it invites those who make health care decisions to eliminate such screening or to mandate procedures which may not be scientifically sound.
(7) Diagnostic information derived from PA catheters should be related to the clinical condition and shortcomings and pitfalls of data clearly understood.
(8) A discussion is given of the advantages, disadvantages, and pitfalls of computerized tomography of the masticator space.
(9) Subsequent culture is desirable but not always possible.A simple scheme for identifying fungi and fungus-like organisms is presented based on general morphology, staining, and other special characteristics with notes on types of tissue reactions and common pitfalls.
(10) Similarly, many pitfalls may be circumvented by the simple expedient of close collaboration between urologist and radiologist, and by the reluctance of either to accept urography that is suboptimal by current standards.
(11) In addition, we illustrate several pitfalls encountered in membrane studies which exploit lipid-requiring organisms.
(12) Based on the pitfalls of the past the development of pancreatic resection therapy is outlined, starting with the first distal pancreatic resection in 1882 performed by Trendelenburg.
(13) To avoid the pitfalls of misdiagnosis and mismanagement, the nature of Crohn's disease should be understood and the gynecologic aspects of the disease recognized.
(14) Rational use of rigid fixation in hand surgery requires awareness of the advantages as well as the potential pitfalls of this relatively complex method of fracture management.
(15) This case illustrates the pitfalls in diagnosis of a chronic polyarthritis that has, as a typical feature, a long latency before manifesting its more specific signs and symptoms (ie, diarrhea, malabsorption, and hyperpigmentation).
(16) Experience with 150 cases of fresh femoral fractures and more than 80 cases of non-union of the femur, the tibia, the humerus and the forearm, demonstrates that thorough familiarity with the instrumentation and the pitfalls of the technique, as well as the correct clinical indications of the method are critical to the achievement of good results.
(17) Pitfalls in diagnosis led to late recognition and therapy in three patients, with subsequent serious complications; namely, arteriovenous fistula, false aneurysm, and amputation.
(18) Requirements, possibilities, and pitfalls of electrolyte (sodium, potassium, and chloride) analysis are reviewed within the light of the experiences in the Academic Hospital St. Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
(19) Discussion of the pitfalls in multiple regression analysis, and possible alternative approaches is largely based on two recent reviews and includes references to recent developments of robust techniques.
(20) It is simple to study mutation to resistance to a drug, for example, ouabain or azaguanine, but, as we discussed, there are technical and conceptual pitfalls.